I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Imagination decides everything.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Passions are the gales of life.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

I dwell in possibility.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.